[aegis-vo-users] PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel® MIC Architecture, Lugano (CH), June 21-23, 2012

[Danica Stojiljkovic]

PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel® MIC
Architecture, Lugano (CH), June 21-23,
2012<http://prace-portal.cscs.ch/blog/?tx_typopress_pi1[post]=138>

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is pleased to
announce the Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and
Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture at the Swiss National
Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland. In this three day
intensive event participants will focus on programming and tuning
techniques for modern multi- and many-core processors with a particular
focus on the Intel® Many Integrated Core architecture. Topics will be
presented at an advanced level and will include structuring code to
enable SIMD/vectorization, efficient usage of register, cache and memory
hierarchies, use of multi-threading techniques to maximize resource
utilization, data locality considerations on multi-socket NUMA nodes,
and inter-node communication. Intel specialists will introduce the
Intel® MIC architecture and the Intel programming environment, and will
delve into greater detail of the use of multi- and many-core programming
techniques. Demonstrations and hands-on sessions will be integrated
throughout the course to illustrate the topics in greater depth, and
user case studies will highlight real-world experiences in optimising
scientific (HPC) codes on the Intel® MIC architecture.

Dates
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21st-23rd June 2012

Location
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Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Lugano, Switzerland

Registration
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To apply for a place please go to
http://survey.ipb.ac.rs/index.php?sid=43493&lang=en. The school is
offered free of charge to students and academics residing in PRACE
member states, and lunches, coffee breaks and an evening dinner event
will be provided. Please note that a sound knowledge of C, C++ or
Fortran is a pre-requisite for this course. Attendance is limited to 30
places, and selection of participants will be based on demonstrated
understanding of computational science and high-performance computing
and experience with at least one of MPI, OpenMP, or multi-core
programming. Registration closes Friday 11th May 2012, but we encourage
applicants to apply as early as possible. Candidates will be informed of
the results of their application by the second week of May (at the
latest).


Registration deadline: 11 May 2012.

Please contact tim.robinson(at)cscs.ch<http://cscs.ch> for further
information.